I
thought I would weigh in on the GOP’s “war on women”. Since I am a
woman, it seems an appropriate topic for me to discuss and I can claim
to be somewhat of an expert at being female. Pundits and our friendly
neighborhood Congress and our lawmakers do not seem to agree and those
of us that are weighted with the X-Chromosome are hardly heard from at
all, relegated once again to the back of the galley to be seen and not
heard by our “betters”. Time and again I have sat in stunned disbelief
as the Right gets more and more radicalized and strives to throw us back
to the disparity and callousness of the Victorian era, an idealized version of society that only favored white men, let me clarify that, it
only favored white wealthy men and never really existed in the first place. It is a fairy tale that the wealthy warm themselves with at
bedtime.
Poor?
Too bad, send your lazy kids to work cleaning up the schools they
attend and get your dinner from a garbage can. Oliver would feel right
at home. Can’t pay your bills? We have for-profit prisons just dying to
throw you behind bars. That’s right folks; it is the return of the
debtor’s prison. Lost your job and can’t pay your
mortgage? The big banks will falsify your paperwork, throw you out and
tell you to live in your car, if you have one, while handing themselves
big bonuses. There are homeless camps springing up all over the country,
almost as bad as the Great Depression. Sick and have no insurance?
Treat yourself with a do it yourself guide to surgery, go deeply in debt
to stay alive (or get harassed by bill collectors while in the hospital
or refused treatment until you pay), or just hope for the best until
it’s too late
and you die. Want to get a college degree? Here are some student loans
that will straddle you with massive debt that will take you your entire
working life to repay, that you can never bankrupt away, and with a huge
interest rate to boot. Have skin that is slightly darker than a St.
Tropez tan? Show me your papers, don’t walk to the corner store, just
accept that you will have less chance to get a job and are far more
likely to be thrown in jail.
The
idiocy of all of this is lost on the tea-partiers and the god, guns,
and, gays tunnel vision that is their red meat. The radicalized right
who are in our government has been growing increasingly insane by the
year turning into some crazed Chicken Little who preys on the ignorance
and base fears of the poor, racist, uneducated, and uninformed. All of
this Kabuki Theater in front while their elected officials laugh at
their base behind their back and pick their pocket at the same time,
siphoning off our countries wealth to those that need it least. The
corporations and their fat cats continue to be given free rein to do as
they please and we all suffer as a result, from a polluted environment
to draconian laws to keep us line. And oh soooo much more.
